PRIVACY POLICY

As a rule, you can use our website without providing any personal data. Where personal data (e.g. your name, address or email address) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) may be subject to security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

The use of the contact details published here by third parties to send unsolicited advertising and information material for marketing purposes is expressly prohibited. Any infringement will be prosecuted. The operators of this website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising being sent, for example by spam email.

Privacy policy for the use of Facebook plugins (Like button)

Our pages include plugins from the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California, 94025, USA). You can recognise the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the ‘Like’ button on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.

When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook thereby receives the information that you have visited our page with your IP address. If you click the Facebook ‘Like’ button while logged in to your Facebook account, you can link the content of our pages to your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. Please note that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or of how Facebook uses it. Further information can be found in Facebook’s privacy policy at http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.

If you do not want Facebook to be able to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account.

Privacy policy for the use of Google AdSense

This website uses Google AdSense, a service for integrating advertisements provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google AdSense uses ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. Google AdSense also uses web beacons (invisible graphics). These web beacons allow information such as visitor traffic on these pages to be analysed.

The information generated by cookies and web beacons about your use of this website (including your IP address) and the delivery of advertising formats is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google may pass this information on to its contractual partners. However, Google will not combine your IP address with any other data it holds about you.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting the settings of your browser software accordingly; please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. By using this website, you consent to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner described above and for the purpose stated above.

Information, deletion, blocking

You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to have this data corrected, blocked or deleted. For this purpose, and for any further questions on the subject of personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address of the website operator given in the legal notice.

Privacy policy for the use of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). Google Analytics uses ‘cookies’, text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, Google will first shorten your IP address within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.

Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide the website operator with further services relating to website and internet use. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be combined with other Google data.

You can prevent cookies from being stored by adjusting the settings of your browser software accordingly; please note, however, that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address), and from processing this data, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents your data from being collected on future visits to this website:

Disable Google Analytics

Further information on the terms of use and data protection can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en&gl=ch. Please note that Google Analytics on this website has been extended with the code ‘anonymizeIp’ to ensure that IP addresses are collected anonymously (known as IP masking).

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from AdWords and the DoubleClick cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not wish this, you can deactivate it via the Ads Preferences Manager (http://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/?hl=en).